The national service school was organized by the women’s section of the Navy League to train American women for the duties which come to them in wartime and in the great national disasters, which include nursing the sick, feeding the hungry, making bandages and other surgical supplies, and comforting the sorrows and relieving the necessities of those dependent upon the defenders of the nation at the front. . . . There was no intention of producing a modern Amazonian corps.

— Richmond Times Dispatch, April 1, 1917